What just happened

I just checked one my recent post and found out that the youbube video referenced is not available anymore due to removed associated account. It's not a first time I noticed account containing videos I was embedding had been removed by Google/Alphabet.

Steemit is a great platform, especially because it's not censored by some "higher authority" (you can read it as NWO/deepstate/globalist/totalitarians people and similar), but what is really assured there is "only" the included text of the posts. Images are stored elsewhere (even steemimg.com is vulnerable because it's centralized AFAIK and youtube is completely under control of Google, resp. Alphabet, its shareholders, various governments and regulation agencies).

Current Steemit status

To existing distributed blockchain text storage we also need image and video storage that cannot be censored or shut-down.

So far, Steem(it) provides this in terms of data:

• distributed text storage ✔
• distributed image storage ✗
• distributed video storage ✗

BTW the removed video was this CNN Fake News Trump meme clip, here I found a copy

And this one is just a bonus to it (maybe not that funny but much more informative :))

Possibilities

There are some projects initiated that might be quite helpful or even solve the problem one day

• SteemQ - https://steemit.com/steemq/@titusfrost/how-steemq-will-kill-youtube-censorship
• Viewly project - https://view.ly/
• LBRY - https://lbry.io/
• Annonymous distributed storages - StorJ, IPFS, Maidsafe, etc.

However none of these projects is far enough to provide adequate replacement for youtube yet.

Actually, I don't think Google/Youtube engineers (and even at least part of its management) are the bad guys. I know they have some morale, they even sacrificed their business in China because Chinese government required censorship and huge user spying. But troublemakers here are always the ruling elites (especially communists, socialist, neo-Marxists and corrupted democrats/republicans/libertarians) and special interest groups. We should really be much more careful about who we vote for (if we live in country where we still can vote). Those people elected in last decades were mostly corrupted and they, with their puppets, are already quite everywhere where is some power to harm people. Kudos to all uncorrupted (especially the influential) people who fight against censorship and all other forms of totalitarianism!

Conclusion

Get rid of internet censorship, make internet free again!